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ForeignTradeCorrespondenceinEnglish 外贸函电Thethreefactorsareforeigntrade correspondenceandEnglish Thepreface Internationaltradeisexchangeofcapital goods andservicesacrossinternationalbordersorterritories Inmostcountries itrepresentsasignificantshareofgrossdomesticproduction GDP Whileinternationaltradehasbeenpresentthroughoutmuchofhistory itseconomic social andpoliticalimportancehasbeenontheriseinrecentcenturies Thepreface industrialization advancedtransportation globalization multinationalcorporations andoutsourcingareallhavingamajorimpactontheinternationaltradesystem Increasinginternationaltradeiscrucialtothecontinuanceofglobalization Withoutinternationaltrade nationswouldbelimitedtothegoodsandservicesproducedwithintheirownborders Thepreface Internationaltradeisinprinciplenotdifferentfromdomestictradeasthemotivationandthebehaviorofpartiesinvolvedinatradedonotchangefundamentallyregardlessofwhethertradeisacrossaborderornot Themaindifferenceisthatinternationaltradeistypicallymorecostlythandomestictrade Thereasonisthatabordertypicallyimposesadditionalcostssuchastariffs timecostsduetoborderdelaysandcostsassociatedwithcountrydifferencessuchaslanguage thelegalsystemorculture Companiesdoingbusinessacrossinternationalbordersfacemanyofthesamerisksaswouldnormallybeevidentinstrictlydomestictransactions Forexample Buyerinsolvency purchasercannotpay Non acceptance buyerrejectsgoodsasdifferentfromtheagreeduponspecifications Creditrisk allowingthebuyertotakepossessionofgoodspriortopayment Regulatoryrisk e g achangeinrulesthatpreventsthetransaction Intervention governmentalactiontopreventatransactionbeingcompleted Politicalrisk changeinleadershipinterferingwithtransactionsorprices andWarandotheruncontrollableevents Inaddition internationaltradealsofacestheriskofunfavorableexchangeratemovement Correspondence 函电中 函通常指信函 即letters 此处指businessletters电则通常与tele 相关Ingeneralusage non concurrent remotecommunicationbetweenpeople includingletters emails newsgroups internationalforums blogs Inthiscourse wemainlyfocusonbusinessletterwritingskillsandpracticeandsomebriefintroductionconcerningthecompositionofcablesandtelex Question whyletterwritingisplayinganimportantroleininternationaltradepractice English English asonekindoflanguageinthecurrentworld isprevailinglyadoptedintheinternationaltradenegotiations transactionsanddocuments Couldyouthinkofsomereasonshelpingexplainthisphenomenoninourlife EnglishFollowingtheeconomic political military scientific cultural andcolonialinfluenceofGreatBritainandtheUnitedKingdomfromthe18thcentury viatheBritishEmpire andoftheUnitedStatessincethemid 20thcentury ithasbeenwidelyspreadaroundtheworld becometheleadinglanguageofinternationaldiscourse andhasacquireduseaslinguafrancainmanyregions ItiswidelylearnedasasecondlanguageandusedasanofficiallanguageoftheEuropeanUnionandmanyCommonwealthcountries aswellasinmanyworldorganizations Itisthethirdmostnative speakinglanguageintheworld afterMandarinChineseandSpanish EnglishistheprimarylanguageinAnguilla AntiguaandBarbuda Australia theBahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda theBritishIndianOceanTerritory theBritishVirginIslands Canada theCaymanIslands Dominica theFalklandIslands Gibraltar Grenada Guam Guernsey Guyana Ireland TheIsleofMan Jamaica Jersey Montserrat Nauru NewZealand PitcairnIslands SaintHelena SaintKittsandNevis SaintVincentandtheGrenadines Singapore SouthGeorgiaandtheSouthSandwichIslands TrinidadandTobago theTurksandCaicosIslands theUnitedKingdomandtheUnitedStates InsomecountrieswhereEnglishisnotthemostspokenlanguage itisanofficiallanguage thesecountriesincludeBotswana Cameroon theFederatedStatesofMicronesia Fiji Gambia Ghana India Kenya Kiribati Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malta theMarshallIslands Mauritius Namibia Nigeria Pakistan Palau PapuaNewGuinea thePhilippines PhilippineEnglish Rwanda SaintLucia Samoa Seychelles SierraLeone theSolomonIslands SriLanka theSudan Swaziland Tanzania Uganda Zambia andZimbabwe Thegoalofattendingthiscourse 1 beabletoreadandunderstandthecontentsofinternationaltradecorrespondence2 getfamiliarwiththewritingstyleinformalandcommercialoccasions3 graspthebasicandmostfrequentlyusedwordsandtermsininternationaltrade4 agoodcombinationofyourEnglishknowledgeandyouracademicknowledge Somerulesofgoodletterwriting 1 studyyourrea